side step / charade / clue
Aug 20, 2020 1:04:40 GMT -5
Post by ✌ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ on Aug 20, 2020 1:04:40 GMT -5
b e n j i .
"i'm not here
i'm just
a mirror"
The morning had brought a lot of interesting information and then nearly none. Benji had known most of the other kids at Salvatore since they'd all started together, they hardly needed reintroduction. It was all a big joke, the school trying to perform some sort of damage control. He hadn't bothered to pay much attention.
Still he hadn't missed the way that Cleo had walked in front of his desk so purposefully. She'd never cared that Benji was spoken for, the two of them had a more firey back and forth than most relationships in Benji's life. He'd dutifully stared out the window but the scent of her perfume had hung in the air behind her.
Benji wasn't the type to let opportunities pass him by without a second look and Cleo was beautiful, despite her wretched personality. Since when had a bad personality ever stopped him though, he was technically with Stella.
"Shame," he'd said when he'd looked at Stella's schedule, so mismatched from his own. Their free periods were at entirely different times. He had noticed however that Cleo hadn't stood up after lunch right away either, that she walked too leisurely across the quad. There was no sign of Grady insight but when he glanced over his shoulder, there was an underclassman looking entirely too out of place for his liking. He looked familiar somehow.
No matter.
"Cleo," he said, falling in beside her as they neared the entrance to the library, "Quite the performance this morning."